[Leica] Back from Hamburg

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Klasse J?rg !
Nice to see an ICE II after I've been inundating the galleries with so much 
steam power.
Something funny happened on the inaugural journey of the train you showed.
The first run, with all the politicians on board, broke the planned schedule 
of 
90minutes.
The first real run, with paying passengers, broke down and it did indeed 
take 
them 5 hours to get to Berlin - On a bus!
Douglas

J?rg Willems wrote:
> Two weeks ago Kati and I spent 10 days in Hamburg, Germany, to see family,
> old friends and my beloved city.
> 
> On Saturday we made a trip to Berlin by the new high speed train:
> 
>  
> 
>  <http://gallery.leica-users.org/Hamburg-Berlin>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Hamburg-Berlin  (M6, 21 mm old version)
> 
>  
> 
> This was quite an experience.  Around 10 minutes after we left Hamburg main
> rail road station (Hauptbahnhof) and still in the outer suburb of the city 
> I
> was wondering when the train would speed up.  Then I noticed the overhead
> display: 228 km/h (142 mph).  After 90 minutes we arrived in Berlin.  
> Before
> the fall of the Berlin wall this trip took 5 hours or more, depending on 
> the
> mood of the boarder controls.
>